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'''Walpi''' is a Hopi village established around AD 900.<ref name="experiencehopi">[http://www.experiencehopi.com/walpi.html Experience Hopi: Guided Hopi Walpi village walking tour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822085736/http://www.experiencehopi.com/walpi.html |date=August 22, 2012 }} . accessed September 1, 2012</ref> It is located above Arizona State Route 264, east of the Grand Canyon in Navajo County, northern Arizona. ''Walpi'' is the Hopi term for "place of the notch." Historically, the village has also been known as '''Ash Hill Terrace''', '''Gaspe''', '''Gualpi''', '''Hualpi''', '''Kuchapturela''', '''Valpee''', and '''Wolpi'''. Walpi became the official name as a result of a decision of the Board on Geographic Names in 1915.<ref name=GNIS />
Walpi is an ancient stone pueblo complex located on the First Mesa (of three), {{convert|300 |ft|m}} above the canyon floor, on the Hopi Reservation.<ref name="experiencehopi" /> The villages of Sichomovi and Tewa (Hano) are also on First Mesa, both established after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 against the Spanish missions.<ref name="experiencehopi" />
== History == Walpi, of the Hopi people, is one of the older continuously inhabited villages in the United States, continuously inhabited for more than 1100 years since around 900 AD.<ref name="experiencehopi" /> It is an example of traditional Hopi stone architecture, used for their historic pueblos built at defensive locations on the mesa tops.
The stone pueblo subtly rising from the stone mesa was well documented by photographs in the latter 19th century, by Edward S. Curtis, John K. Hillers, and others. Ansel Adams continued in the 20th century, along with increasing tourists' 'snapshots' via Fred Harvey bus tours and their own automobiles up from Route 66.
===Present day=== The First Mesa Tourism Program describes the village of Walpi as "a living village where the homes are passed down through matrilineal clan lineage."<ref name="experiencehopi" />
About half a dozen in number live in the ancient stone dwellings, without running water or electricity, in the traditional manner.
;Access Walpi is accessible to visitors by guided tours, given by the First Mesa Consolidated Villages' Tourism Program.<ref name="experiencehopi" /> {{multiple image | align = left | direction = horizontal | header = Walpi | total_width = 800 | image1 = Watching the Dancers by Edward S. Curtis 1906 - restored.jpg | caption1 = ''Watching the Dancers'' at Walpi (1906), by Edward S. Curtis.{{pb}}A photo classified as an "Item in High Demand" by the Library of Congress.<ref>{{cite web |title=Watching the Dancers |url=https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002708847/ |website=Library of Congress |publisher=Library of Congress |access-date=February 2, 2024}}</ref> | image2 = Walpi (Hopi), ca. 1873-1881.jpg | caption2 = ''Walpi'' (circa 1877), by John Karl Hillers. | image3 = "Walpi, Arizona, 1941.", 1941 - NARA - 519990.jpg | caption3 = ''Walpi and First Mesa'' (1941), by Ansel Adams. }} {{clear}}
== See also == *Hopi mythology *Hopi Kachina dolls *Sikyátki
== References == {{Reflist}} * [https://www.encyclopedia.com/html/W/Walpi.asp Entry in The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2006] * [http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9076001?query=Walpi&ct= Britannica entry]
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== External links == *[http://www.experiencehopi.com/walpi.html Experience Hopi: Walpi village tour] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822085736/http://www.experiencehopi.com/walpi.html |date=August 22, 2012 }} *[http://www.experiencehopi.com/villages.html Hopi Villages — on First Mesa, Second Mesa, and Third Mesa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821232515/http://experiencehopi.com/villages.html |date=August 21, 2012 }} *[http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/search/searchterm/%20Walpi%20(Ariz.)--1910-1920./mode/exact Digital Denver Library.org: Walpi images from 1910–1920] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083510/http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/search/searchterm/%20Walpi%20(Ariz.)--1910-1920./mode/exact |date=March 4, 2016 }} — ''online gallery''.
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Category:Pueblo great houses Category:Populated places in Navajo County, Arizona Category:Native American history of Arizona Category:Road-inaccessible communities of Arizona Category:Hopi Reservation Category:Pueblos in New Mexico